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Communication v. Excommunication: Catholic Women and the Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…en on the Danube and continues to the present with three women ordained in Boston this summer. These women engage in a variety of ministries—as hospital chaplains, house church leaders, campus ministers, etc.—despite their lack of official recognition, in fact in spite of a recent Vatican pronouncement that excommunicated any women ordained and the bishops who ordain them. Another, in my view more promising, approach is the formation of the Women-…

Meet the Real Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ch’s challenges retaining converts and the struggles of its feminists, the Boston area being home to an historically strong Mormon feminist community. At a time when America is trying to come to terms with Mormon difference, by focusing on congregational and community life—rather than esoteric elements of doctrine—the Times has helped unlock one of most significant distinguishing features of contemporary Mormon life: the intensity and intimacy of…

Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’

By Peter Laarman

…xcommunicated” and went on to found his own 28th Congregational Society in Boston as a haven for freethinkers and committed abolitionists. Which is not to say that Theodore Parker was without his own blind spots. Like many other “enlightened” New Englanders, Parker hated slavery but also clung to racist views, viewing Black people as naturally “docile,” while viewing so-called “Anglo-Saxons” as a superior strain of humanity. Douglass, who found wa…

US Bishops Defund Immigrant Rights Group Over LGBT Equality

By Patricia Miller

At the same time that Catholic prelates like Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley make high-profile trips to the US-Mexican boarder and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops urges a more humane immigration policy, a grassroots Catholic group providing support to immigrants and day labors has lost its funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development because of its tangential support for same-sex marriage. The Voz Workers’ Rights Education Proje…

Soy Story: Atrocious ‘Reporting’ on Insular Religious Groups

By Eli Federman and James Moxness

…insular religious societies like the Amish or Hasidic Jews may be due to a number of issues, from the difficulty of contacting individuals for interviews to the fact that insular communities are less likely to challenge a story. Or, just as likely, it may be due to biases about obscure religious customs and practices that predispose outsiders—which journalists and TV producers almost always are—to be less critical about the information they receiv…

Is New Pope’s Take on the Poor All That New?

By Silvia Alves Fernandes and Manuel A. Vásquez

…ey, a Franciscan who has been credited with cleaning up the Archdiocese of Boston, which witnessed some of the most egregious cases of sexual abuse and cover up under Cardinal Bernard Law. Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and head of Caritas International, will serve as the panel’s coordinator. Among the proposals that the council will consider is one that sets term limits for positions within Vatican bureaucracy…

Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…hose targeted anti-trans rhetoric led to multiple bomb threats against the Boston Children’s Hospital), ignored the Club Q attack. The next day, however, she virtually put a target on a drag show education organization and the Colorado State Representatives who’ve appeared at their events—whom she called out by name. She followed it up with posts attacking gender affirming care facilities, drag shows, and an individual’s TikTok profile, writing, “…

Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?

By Steve A. Wiggins

…winter has been like that. The south digs out from yet another snowstorm. Boston has drifts that could bury a yeti. The blizzard of the century last month may have missed us New Yorkers by an order of two or three states, but it has been very cold—and those of us in the commuting crowd have learned new applications for the word “endurance.” It was only a matter of time before the remark would be heard. Perhaps you know the one I mean. An anonymou…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…s moral reflection is needed. This is not it. The rest of the document, 66 numbered paragraphs, includes an introduction to the notion of human dignity which for the Vatican boils down to Natural Law, and a history of the concept of human rights as it has emerged in Catholicism and some global platforms. The second half is a catalog of what are considered by the writers to be “grave violations” of human dignity: poverty, war, injustice to migrants…

Who Says The “Partly Jewish” Are Bad For The Jews?

By Susan Katz Miller

…vel.” And while she ultimately disapproves of this, Catherine Cornille, at Boston College, writes, “More and more individuals confess to being partly Jewish and partly Buddhist, or partly Christian and partly Hindu, or fully Christian and fully Buddhist.” Some of these theologians warn that complex identities may be “shallow” if claimed not by scholars but by “dilettantes.” And yet, can a child immersed in two religions from birth be a dilettante?…